Jyosua

I was wondering how they were going to keep it from being OP. Kinda wish the freeze counts were higher though, but hey, he's pretty much already S tier or at least high A.

Hey severin, how about you come down to SoCal and we play some offline matches. :st1ckbug:

I won't get home from work until about 9:30 EST, unfortunately. Since moving to california I'm way behind everyone else. XD

I've never had a problem with that because of god tier internet (35 symmetrical fios). Alright, I'll try to play at my best and keep the scrub tactics to a minimum.

Man... Dem hitboxes... Moy, if you are available later tonight, would you mind playing more matches with me? I'd like to maybe record or stream them and use some kind of stream chat or something to talk about the matches while we play them. I think that would help more than just recapping after.

Ignore most of what I said. I can't communicate thoughts coherently when I'm that salty. I was angry because as Moy said, Platinum is momentum based. This means pretty much any mistake I make or correct mash by him lands me in the corner. To top it off, while he tells me not to wakeup DP, he did the same quite a few times, but I have trouble punishing Plat's DP online. The thing I said about respect: I was talking about baiting DPs. I want people to bait them so I can get out of pressure. I originally tried to counter assault after blocking bubble oki on wakeup, but more than half the time I ended up missing the timing because of 5A and lol online. Regarding those counter hits during your pressure Moy: am I supposed to be able to mash and beat her butt bump overhead? Sometimes it worked, but sometimes I got counter hit instead. That's part of why you got so many counter hits. That and when you dashed towards me during pressure, I thought I could mash there. I need help with that matchup... it's unbearable. Moy, will you be online tonight?

I'm sick of this. I just don't think I'm gonna play you any more as I'll never do well enough to beat you. It might be different in person, but online I just can't deal with Platinum. Respecting my wakeup means not pressing a fucking button on my wakeup every time. Yes, you have oki. But if you know I can and will DP on wakeup sometimes, why is it impossible to punish you trying to bait it? How am I supposed to get out of the corner then? There's no fucking way. Any midscreen confirm lands me in the corner against Plat, and that's ridiculous. God this is depressing. I thought I was actually improving, but every time I play you, I get told not to do the same things. I don't do them all the fucking time. But yes, in the span of 45 matches it might just seem like I do them a lot! I'm also pissed off that I kept missing my 2A confirm. I don't even know why. I think it's because I was nervous that if I dropped it, I'd get hit with another third or more of my health.

Oh, and get guard broken by blocking for eternity? :/ Fuck that noise. Of course I'm going to try to jump out at times. You make it sound like I do those things all the time, but I only started doing that after losing to plat shitting out Ragna style damage like 10 times. Additionally, any match I didn't wakeup DP, you didn't respect my wakeup at all. Shit, you still didn't most of the time when I did do it at least once! I actually wasn't using it that much at all, but then I get perfected, so fuck that. I'm not going to block you if I think I can outsmart you and win with a button. Especially against Platinum. Especially on netplay. Blocking that shit is ridiculous. And then I get command thrown, guard broken, or thrown. Like bubble oki for instance: if you stand there, I will throw you. If you do swallow moon, I will 5C. I haven't figured out what to do if you jump in the air. I should note that I did a lot better against your Jin. But you can't expect me to block forever, never DP on wakeup, never jump out of pressure, and never try to low-profile you. I'd just lose.

Those last games Moy, that was uneccesary. Astrals just waste time. I also lost a decent few matches by choking and confirming into the wrong thing. To top it off, I kept getting counterhit for trying to fucking barrier block! What the fuck is wrong with this game? I couldn't even tech the astral grabs even though I knew they were coming. Fucking shit netplay. Also platinum is ridiculous. Can confirm nearly everything into 4k+ from midscreen and has ridiculous hitboxes. That matchup is literally impossible to win consistently, much less at all. I hit you and get 3-4k, you hit me and 6.8k? Fuck Extend.

By the way, you can hold the button to tech. Not sure if this was confirmed earlier.

Stunedge also said that Air and Ground Hiyoku Getsumei do the same damage... not sure if he meant approximately or not, as I know cadacus_ater was calculating that separately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=P7qeSfCkNOM#t=33s This combo... 3.5k for 25 meter midscreen? I'LL TAKE IT!

GGs to Neo_Zeromus_X. Thanks for boding me with my own character. No but seriously, that was fun for my day 2 Ky. XD

If it's spaced right, you can't punish. When she ends up right next to you, you can straight-up punish if you IB'd.

On a side note, you were definitely able to low-profile some of my things Moy. I think it was Coup you did that to, but I'm not sure what move you used either, probably 2A or sweep. Anyhow, tired, so sleep time.

As far as the droits: yeah, it's -6 on IB. Sorry, I was thinking -7 because of BB. So I guess you can't punish it. I know Akihiko can at least. XD Mitsuru's pressure is dumb. It really is. You have to know when to mash, but most importantly, you have to know what to mash. The backdash swing was her 4B, which is a huge damage fatal. It's also extremely good at baiting throws. I use that a lot in her pressure, but trying to mash and beat it is risky because it's chargeable. 5AA>4/5/6B can go from being an airtight string, to a frame trap, to a big risk with good rewards. To top it all off 90% of her ground normals are cancellable into 2C which keep her relatively safe. That was something I didn't use that often against you because you didn't mash. I'm still trying to get into the habit of it as well. There were a few times I used sweep twice in a row; what I normally would have done would be sweep > 2C > see if you're respectful or 5A. Since sweep can be cancelled into A Coup, it's not generally a good idea to mash after it anyways. Generally, if someone does [6B] in a blockstring, it's unsafe as shit and they're doing it to get 2B mixup. 2B can cancel into an instant overhead, crossover overhead, sweep, or back into 4/5/6B. It's one of the best blockstrings you can do as Mitsuru. It's okay: I don't play zoning characters either because they make my head hurt. The most hilarious thing in this game are Mitsuru mirrors. There's a good reason for that: She has an answer to every one of her moves, meaning if you can read the other person well, you can consistently win a game of rock-paper-fatal by mashing the right move during the opponent's pressure. Sweep beats coup, 2B can beat 5A if precisely timed as well as [4B] pretty much always, Coup can beat a lot of things, etc. It's really hilarious, especially if both players are mashy.

My goal in life is complete. I kid. XD Coup Droit's negativity depends on how far out I was, that is, whether or not I just used the tip or not. You are definitely able to punish a point-blank Coup on IB and you did several times. But if I spaced it properly, you can't. Reset shenanigans are quite honestly to only reason I keep playing this game. XD I love 2B resets, but I'm still working on learning to use D Bufula oki properly though. There are also a few places in Mitsuru's combos never to burst, which are while you're in the air after 2B, 2D, or Sweep. Sweep I can just cancel to bait burst and I do that very occasionally if I think I have a strong read on someone. I noticed there were quite a few times I was able to delay tech and roll through your wakeup setups. Is it possible to cancel some of them into throwing a fan? I noticed you catch me with 2A a few times, so I started doing delay tech > roll > DP if I thought you were going to do that. Also, while I got you with hundreds (maybe not that many....) throws, throw tech is extremely dangerous with Mitsuru. You didn't really do this, but don't mash it on false yomi or you'll eat 6k. I feel like there were a lot of confirms that you could have led into much more damage and better oki setups if you practiced more. I'm always up for playing whenever I'm online, so let me know if you want a fraudulent Mitsuru to play against. XD But yes, my character is quite clearly ridiculous. I am very well aware of that by now. At least I get exposed by brkrdave most of the time.

GGs to Brkrdave and Moy_X7. I didn't even expect to play any matches today, but I got some invites while working on fixing my stream. XD

That could be true, but it looks like it could still be used for that given precise spacing.

I was happy enough having a TK overhead/anti-anti-air. Time to bait all the anti-airs! Our Jin mixup is going to be hot shit.

That is SO dirty. Holy shit, I love this game already.

Does CT have a large vertical hitbox or something? I was watching videos and I have no idea how it could hit Hazama after 6C: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=T7gPpnZycVg#t=546s

COnsidering OD is supposed to be a powerup, I could see it boosting P2 to make proration better.

I've always loved wasting meter. Thank you based ArcSys gods! Jin's blockstrings are also looking very good, and the new sekkajin gives great oki... I'm so hype for this. It's like we get all the tools and they're all fantastic.

I actually really liked the wallbounce combos, but their positioning dependencies were ridiculous. Also character specific combos were dumb.